... But if I spend [all] my time *reading* about adventures, I won't actually be *having* them.

You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.

No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes.

The trick was forgetting about what she had lost ...and learning to go on with what she had left.

Beatrix, do you know what happens to girls who ask such naughty questions?”“They’re ravished in haylofts?” she inquired hopefully.

My family has always believed that when we are faced with large and apparently impossible problems, the best solutions are found by the insane people, not the sensible ones.

Take too much time, and time will take you.

You thought I was peculiar, ” she said in a muffled voice.His mouth brushed the edge of her ear and settled against her neck. She felt that he was smiling. “Darling love… you are.

She felt tears slip from beneath her lashes, no matter how she tried to blink them back. Her heart was ablaze. It seemed that her entire life had led to this man, this moment of unexpressed love.

Anger always has a reason but love is always the answer.

The terror is trapped inside of him and paralyzes him. He closes his eyes again and tries to drown out the scream - but it keeps ringing and ringing and ringing in his ears.

Thomas More's Utopia was not a recommendation. It was a warning.

The beauty of periodic rebalancing is that it forces you to base your investing decisions on a simple, objective standard.

These are days you'll remember. If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.

It is when you are angry that you must watch how you talk.

I will go forth as a real outlaw," he said, "and as men do robbery on the highway I will do right on the highway; and it will be counted a wilder crime.

There was a general sense that if you were going to get close enough to a CBS executive to tweak his nose, you'd only have one hand free because you were holding your own.

All paintings start with concept, which is another word for image or imagination. The mistake is to isolate the concept as if the idea did not need to be given permanent form.

I would a great deal rather be anything, say professor of history, than vice president.